Will holograms be part of olympics opening ceremonies ceremony?
An Avatar-style hologram of Terry Fox running round B.C. Place Stadium. A film of him projected onto 60,000 spectators. These are just two of the theories popping up in water-cooler conversations about the identity of the final Olympic torchbearer to light the cauldron at B.C. Place. The projection theory was spawned after news leaked out that spectators will be asked to don white ponchos as part of the ceremony. And Olympic sponsor Samsung used hologram technology to introduce its “Jet” phone last summer. According to widespread speculation, an image of Terry Fox will be used — and his mother will then carry in the torch. The Fox connection was refuelled after the one-legged hero’s mother, Betty Fox, failed to run in the torch relay in Coquitlam on Thursday. Earlier this week, 2010 CEO John Furlong had told a news conference that she would run there. Up until then, Wayne Gretzky, hockey’s Great One, was being touted as the front-runner, with rumours of assists from Bobby Orr and Gordi
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